Gibson v. Superior Court for Pierce County

This petition for a writ of certiorari challenges an order of the Pierce County Juvenile Court depriving petitioner of all parental rights to her daughter and making the daughter available for adoption. Although the dependency and deprivation petitions referred to two children, the juvenile court deprived the mother of parental rights to the younger child only.

The petitioner, Merna Gibson, is the mother of Cheryl Ann Gibson. Her assignments of error raise two major contentions.(1) The Pierce County Juvenile Court did not have jurisdiction to hear the case because Cheryl Ann was not presently…